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N ̊ 122 2020Yoga...
for dogs
GLOSSARY
to pamper vb
if you “pamper” someone, you do nice
things to them to make them feel good
a gimmick n
an object designed to attract attention,
but that doesn’t really do anything useful
to bond with exp
if you “bond with” someone, you form
a strong relationship with them
to behave vb
the way you “behave” is the way you act
a ring n
a metal piece of jewellery you wear on
a inger
to bake vb
to cook in the oven (an appliance in
the kitchen that you place food inside
in order to cook it)
to search vb
to look for
loorboards n
rectangular pieces of wood used to
make a loor in a house
to take up phr vb
if you “take up” the loorboards (for
example), you take them of the loor
nowhere to be found exp
if something is “nowhere to be found”,
you can’t ind it / it has disappeared
to disappear into thin air exp
if something “disappears into thin air”,
you can’t ind it anywhere, and you
don’t know what has happened to it
a crop n
a type of vegetable or fruit that you
grow in order to eat
compost n
a mixture of old bits of fruit (and other
organic substances) that you put on
earth in a garden to help plants grow
to it vb
if something “its” you, it is the right
size for you
to enlarge vb
to make bigger
to give up hope exp
if you’ve “given up hope”, you stop
believing that something can/could/
might happenWhat do you call yoga for
dogs? “Doga”, apparently.
Suzette Ackermann, a South
African woman, has recently
begun ofering doga classes at
her yoga studio. “I already give
yoga classes for adults and also
for mothers and their children,
so I thought, this can’t be so
diferent.” She said it’s perfect
for dog lovers who want to
pamper their pets.So, how does it work? Simple!
Dog owners do yoga positions
while holding their pets. And
the dogs are helped into
various positions of their
own. So, is it a gimmick? Not
according to doga-enthusiast
Harty Baleros. She goes with
her Bichon Frise. “It’s like you’re
bonding with the dog. Also,
my dog listens to me more,
and is better behaved when
we do yoga together.”In 1995, Swedish woman
Lena Paahlsson lost her
diamond wedding ring.
She’d taken it of to do
some baking. But then she
couldn’t ind it anywhere.
Lena and her husband
searched the entire
kitchen. They even took
up the loorboards. But
the ring was nowhere to
be found. It had simply
disappeared into thin air.Lena eventually gave up
hope of ever seeing it again.
But years later, something
incredible happened.
Lena was working in hervegetable garden, pulling
up the latest carrot crop
when she suddenly found
the ring. It was on one of
her carrots. It appears that
the ring had fallen into a
container of compost on
the kitchen table all those
years ago. The compost
was then thrown into the
garden. And the carrot grew
up through the middle of
the ring. The ring no longer
its, but Lena is going to
have it enlarged. She said,
“I’d given up hope. But
now that I’ve found the ring
again... I want to be able to
use it.”Missing
wedding
ring
We
found
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